Egypt's main stock index EGX 30, unaffected by the Muslim Brotherhood ban verdict, rose by 0.59 percent on Tuesday to reach a value of 5680.65 points.

An 18-year-old high school student was sent to four days imprisonment pending investigation for chanting pro-Morsy slogans in school.

Violent clashes erupted Wednesday during protests supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi at two universities in northern Egypt.

Conflicting accounts arose on Wednesday surrounding the alleged closure of the party newspaper of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).

The Maspero Youth Union, a Coptic youth movement, met on Wednesday with the 50-member committee charged with amending the constitution, to propose several amendments to the charter.

A delegation representing several political groups will visit the southern city of Dalga Friday, according to a statement released on Thursday.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization held meetings in Istanbul and Lahore on Wednesday to look at ways to escalate action against the regime in Egypt.

Egyptian authorities have shut down the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice newspaper in Cairo, the latest move aimed at crushing the Islamist movement, the Brotherhood said on Wednesday.

Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Ateya said Wednesday that the Gulf country has supported Egypt since the 25 January 2011 uprising, not only following president Mohamed Morsi's rise to power in 2012. The FM also denied rumours of a rift with Saudi Arabia over their support for Egypt's interim-government regarding Morsi's ouster.

An Egyptian misdemeanor court sentenced two State Security policemen to two months, with labor, on Wednesday, on charges of torturing two suspects in 2011.

A Cairo court ordered on Wednesday the arrest of five people, who supported deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, for six month with a bail of 26, 000 Egyptian pounds.

Powerful Syrian insurgent units have rejected the authority of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC), badly damaging efforts by Western-backed political exiles to forge a moderate rebel military force on the ground.

Minister of Social Solidarity Ahmed al-Borai said on Tuesday that the government decided to postpone the disbandment of the Muslim Brotherhood until the completion of court procedures.

Al-Salam Misdemeanor Court of Appeals fined Wasat Party figure Essam Sultan LE70,000 for defaming former presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq through the media.

Founding Jama'a al-Islamiya leader Karam Zohdy has called on leaders of the National Alliance in Support of Legitimacy to apologize to the Egyptian people for past mistakes under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A new front, dubbed "Revolution Path Front" aimed at providing an alternative to the current "polarisation" between the military and Muslim Brotherhood has been launched on Tuesday in a press conference attended by tens of leading political figures, activists and groups.

Leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohamed Ali Bishr criticised Monday’s court ruling that banned all activities of the Islamist group.

A court in Alexandria will decide on 23 December whether the Muslim Brotherhood should be labelled a terrorist group in Egypt.

Mahmoud Amer, head of the Ansar al-Sunna al-Mohamadeya Society in Damanhour, has called for a referendum on the application of Islamic Sharia in Egypt.

Clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood's supporters and opponents broke out close to schools and universities around Cairo on Sunday.

To mark the beginning of the new academic year, loyalists of ousted president Morsi held several small protests in the capital and elsewhere on Sunday.